Opening the website (Patreon)

Should I make the website public or keep it private?

Although I like the extra security of the wordpress site being "offline" I do keep getting messages that some have issue with having access to the site. I'm not happy that some are having issue accessing the content and don't mind making the site public tho it will have ads unless I pay for the domain which I'm trying to avoid lol. So I want to know what you guys think. Passwords will still be required to access the pages every month tho.